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Pelvic Ultrasound (limited) at UPMC Somerset
225 South Center Avenue, Somerset, PA · UPMC · · NPI 1912900168
$394.20
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$657.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$21.85 with United Healthcare Community Plan for Families vs $266.25 with Humana — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA Medicaid | $21.85 | ↓ -94% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $35.20 | ↓ -91% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $36.74 | ↓ -91% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicaid | $41.06 | ↓ -90% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid | $44.48 | ↓ -89% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Medicare Advantage | $68.21 | ↓ -83% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $100.37 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $101.38 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $101.38 | ↓ -74% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $101.38 | ↓ -74% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/EPO Select Plan/HMO | $103.41 | ↓ -74% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $109.48 | ↓ -72% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $137.63 | ↓ -65% |
| Geisinger | Commercial | $139.80 | ↓ -65% |
| Aetna of PA | TPA/Carrier | $142.00 | ↓ -64% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Social Mission Indemnity/Managed Care - Social Mission | $150.36 | ↓ -62% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $153.00 | ↓ -61% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $156.77 | ↓ -60% |
| Multiplan | PPO (Includes PHCS as a Payer) | $177.50 | ↓ -55% |
| Highmark BCBS of PA | Commercial - Indemnity/Managed Care | $190.31 | ↓ -52% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $208.43 | ↓ -47% |
| Galaxy Health Plan | Commercial | $230.75 | ↓ -41% |
| Humana | Commercial | $266.25 | ↓ -32% |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
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Pelvic Ultrasound (limited) at other Pennsylvania hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| UPMC East | Monroeville | $633.60 | $35.20 – $844.80 |
| UPMC Passavant-McCandless | Pittsburgh | $519.60 | $35.20 – $736.10 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $462.00 | $35.20 – $508.90 |
| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $394.20 | $24.89 – $558.45 |
| UPMC Altoona | Altoona | $436.80 | $19.00 – $582.40 |
| UPMC Bedford | Everett | $216.00 | $33.60 – $324.00 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $280.20 | $33.60 – $373.60 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $394.20 | $24.89 – $301.75 |